Trump changes the Department of Defense’s name to ‘Department of War’

In all executive statements, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Trump claimed that the name change was a result of a wider shift in the organization from a “woke” ideology at a signing ceremony held from the Oval Office on Friday. He added that a new era of military victory would beckon.

“We thus won the First World War.” The Second World War was won by us. Before that and every step thereafter, we prevailed. After that, we made the decision to rename the organization Department of Defense, according to Trump.

“We ought to have won everywhere,” he said. We could have won every war, but we actually made the decision to be very politically correct or awake.

Official White House correspondence and official public statements were to use the name “Department of War,” according to administration officials. However, Congress would need to pass new legislation in order for a more permanent change.

Trump added that in order to do so, he would ask Congress to pass a bill to codify the name.

The new name has been widely accepted as a sign of President Trump’s more aggressive foreign policy.

Trump has overseen bombing campaigns in Yemen, Iran, and the southern Caribbean Sea since taking office for a second term.

Despite making the initial promise to be “a peacemaker and a unifier” while in office, those military actions come at this time.

However, the new name has historical roots. From 1789 to 1949, the Department of Defense was known as the Department of War.

Following World War II, Congress passed the National Security Act of 1947, which established a single civilian-headed department for the US military.

According to historians, switching to “Department of Defense” was also intended to emphasize the need to avoid war given the recent threat of nuclear destruction.

Trump made the suggestion at the ceremony that the most recent name change was related to the US’s recent lack of military victories.

We could have won every war, but we really made the wrong choice: very politically correct or awakened. And we simply fight forever,” Trump said, presumably reflecting on alleged “forever wars” like the US’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

“We wouldn’t really lose,” he said. We would simply fight. Tidy-sort. We never wanted to win, but we could have easily won each of their wars with a few minor adjustments.

Maximum lethality, not tepid legality

The US secretary of defense will now be referred to as the “secretary of war” as a result of Friday’s executive order.

At the signing ceremony, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, who is currently in charge of that position, said the move helped “restore the warrior ethos.” He offered some words of support for the name change.

“The War Department will engage in decisive combat,” the statement read. He said it will fight to win rather than lose.

“We’re going to engage in offence rather than just defense,” he said. Maximum lethality, not dreadful legality. violent impact that is not politically correct.

Since taking office, Trump has changed its name several times, including changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico in federal documents.

Additionally, he reversed changes that saw Confederate-era soldiers baptized with new moniker names on military installations.

For instance, his administration removed the name “Fort Liberty” from a military base in North Carolina and changed it to “Fort Bragg,” which was also inspired by Confederates.

However, Trump’s team claimed Roland Bragg, a World War II paratrooper, would be the replacement name for Braxton Bragg, instead of the former Confederate General.

Can you believe that the previous administration changed their name a little bit? But won’t we forget that, will we? ” Trump said during an army base speech in June.

“I’m not sure if the location could be the same.” The Fort Bragg is . Fort Bragg will always be called that, and that is the name.

Trump attributed the change to superstition, but his administration has also taken a different course with regard to diversity initiatives that aim to make the military more welcoming to various demographics.

A deadly aerial strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the international waters of the Caribbean Sea followed Friday’s pledge to pursue a more war-forward strategy.

Trump and his top officials have promised to use more “narco terrorists” to allegedly detain alleged criminals.

According to experts, such strikes have no legal basis and raise the possibility of the targeted attack on civilians, including fishermen and migrants.

Trump claimed on Friday that boat traffic in the area where the attack, which resulted in 11 fatalities, has decreased since.

Source: Aljazeera